CONFESSION: I have been cheating on my hairstylist. In my defense, it is never premeditated. I am blithely committed to our hair relationship when BAM! I am attacked by wanderlust: my co-worker’s new do with the perfectly stacked bob; the receptionist’s elegantly angled bangs; my neighbor’s to-die-for hi-lights; the irresistible coupon in the mail for a free brow wax with cut. And before I know it, I have the phone number & address in my possession, and I am making guilty plans for an illicit assignation. The Greeks might call this hubris: excessive pride or arrogance that brings about one’s downfall. I am ashamed to say I fall prey to the allure of greener pastures and 10% discounts, all in the name of reaching hair nirvana.
However, these fleeting affairs always leave me feeling faintly dissatisfied and contrite. I resent the rushed shampoo, the flicker of boredom in the eye’s of a stranger, the lack of concern and care for my future split ends. So it’s time to return to the comfort of the familiar. Liz will take me back without questions or recriminations. “So, you’ve decided to go shorter…hmm…how did this layer get in here? …easily remedied!” My eyes refuse to meet hers in the mirror as I idly flip through my favorite gossip magazine which she always has waiting for me.
“So tell me about the boys…”
...and I am forgiven. And I will never cheat again… Swear!
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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, O' the cheating that goes on.” Saul Antin
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"You've got your finger jammed in your ear, you're shushing people on the streets. You're ducked behind a dumpster so you can hear about your friend's new hair cut. 'What about the bangs are they shorter?!?...Are the bangs shorter?!?...THE BAAANGS!!!” Ellen DeGeneres
Donna,
ReplyDeleteI admire you for even attempting to have a monogamous relationship with your hairdresser. I do very well for a while, but then I get bored. It seems that our relationship reaches a peak, and then slowly I find out, she is stuck in a rut, and can do nothing new. Every time I want something different, she always gives me the same thing. So, I revolt, and I find someone new, quite unashamedly (except the time the someone new was in the same studio as the previous hairdresser :)
So for now, I am very happy with my relationship with my hairdresser, and this may be the relationship that I've longed for (especially since a hair cut is only $12, and she patiently returned my phone call when I dyed my hair lemon yellow, and she doesn't even chastise me for coloring my own hair). I have even followed her when she moved to a boy shop, so that really shows comittment on my part. She is also Ryder's hair stylist and my neighbor, so there is room for shame if there is a breakup with her.
Hope today is a great hair day! Love the blog, and miss you guys!!!